The man and the skunk by Montana

The man and the skunk by Montana - October 2013 Scholarship Essay

Not too long ago I learned something very important, it was that no matter what you should never assume anything. We were at the bookshop we had just recently acquired through the other non-profit program my family helps run. All of my elders were fighting and arguing about why things were not going so well. Everyone was fighting and not really caring about the books that were so close to being taken away from us. Perhaps I’ll give a bit of a back story; the reason the book store was given to us is because it was previously sold to a man I know quite well, but this man was not a good leader he didn’t pay his bills and the building owner would be soon locking us out, the previous owner of the books asked us to reposes them in exchange for the rights to the books. We found out very many books were missing, well let’s get back to the lesson I learned. Everyone was fighting assuming that everyone else was to blame for the wrong doing suddenly the old story teller walked to us and told a story which goes like this; two brothers were getting prepared to fish. Little Brother goes outside seeing that his fishing pole is gone, when Big Brother comes out Little Brother says Big Brother took his fishing pole. The brothers fight breaking Big Brother’s pole, then grandpa comes out to find out what was going on. He reminds Little Bother that his pole is in the boat. The boys tell him and he goes on to tell them a story of when he was younger. “I saw my vegetables were missing I blamed my dear friend skunk, I hit him in the head when he said it wasn’t him, he then sprayed me. I later found out it was Grandma picking them and sharing with the community. I told he what had happened and she said to me “How will you fix this?” I grabbed das many vegetables as I could and told skunk I was sorry; I may have felt better, but the smell did not go away. Now anytime I want to blame someone without knowing I remember that smell and realize I must know the facts before coming to any conclusions.” The boys then make up. Lyle told the story well finishing it by telling everyone there was no need to fight; that we must take time and come to conclusions with facts. I learned to work hard and not point fingers without knowing.